P1n3apqlExpr3ss: That's the one thing I'm fearing when I order (waiting for some more decent reviews), Amazon and possibly Newegg should be good though

NewEgg are pretty militant about blocking freight forwarders - YouShop has now been around long enough that I'd bet it's caught their attention by now. Amazon would be a very good bet, and you can get Geekzone a few pingers by using the affiliate link and all that.

It would be great for travelling assuming you can do things like import pictures from a camera. Because it's so cheap it wouldn't ruin your holiday if it got stolen or broke.

Also _IF_ you had the upload bandwidth so that photo's downloaded from your camera could sync to Google Drive, that would be another big advantage. Lots of holidays get ruined from people losing camera's/photos. Unfortunately I'm not sure if free wifi at backpackers and even paid wifi at netcafe's would have the sort of upload bandwidth needed to make that workable right now.

As for me - I can see myself getting one in future as a shared general purpose device that would stay in the lounge. I am forever using a flatmates laptop to do something online at night.

Also, have you seen some of the stuff they are doing with chrome the browser now? There is actually a remote desktop app for chrome. So you install the app on chrome on two computers, then you can connect to desktop A remotely from desktop B. Not sure how good of a solution it is, but it shows that the concept of a browser based OS has more potential than you originally assume.

The video doesn't show properly for me but yeah I have used it just to see and it seemed to work fine first time (but in my test both computers were on the same LAN, so it wasn't much of a test). And in all my years of using remote desktop, I have never missed audio. If audio were available via this app, I can't think of a reason why I would enable it.

I just think that making remote desktop functionality available from within the browser -- that is innovation. Things like this are why the whole chrome book thing could go somewhere.

I am pretty happy to chuck away my 7" tablet for this, but not my Asus laptop just yet...

One thing I am not so satisfied with the chromebook after looking through all the reviews which is,it seems like you can not download or torrent large files to the chromebook like a regular laptop/desktop with a hard drive built in.

I had a Google Chromebook here for a while. Reality is if you are planning to use it outside you need the 3G version. The WiFi only version is too limited - either you find a free WiFi, or use your phone as a WiFi hotspot or pay an overpriced WiFi service (it's cheaper to buy 3G mobile data than WiFi services now).

Considering most people to buy macbooks use it for facebook/email/browsing there isn't much wrong with this, and it is now only a little bit more limited than traditional laptops. It can create offline docs and all of that now, plus it's always growing. Although Docs isn't as indepth/extensive as Microsoft Office. This is compared to Windows RT that could be a little stale in two years time (not sure how Microsoft is going to handle updates), much like WP7.x at the moment